Name: Ludwig Acrolite 5x14 Snare Drum
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)

7 Artists Use This
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

Cavs can be seen playing a 5x14 Acrolite throughout this whole video. Also in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxxz7Tgfsv4&t=0s&list=PLUjBWySWUTRO-quwDoCUWvRGPt6HdFOEQ&index=121
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Nathan Followill

Used for some of *Only by the Night*, particularly on "Use Somebody", as stated by *Only by the Night* producer Jacquire King in this July 31, 2019 interview with producer Warren Huart at 1:24:07. > This is my Gretsch drum kit, it's a 1959 Round Badge. This is the drum kit that was used on "Use Somebody". We used bunch of different drum kits, but we started with mine. (...) It just happened that this is the drum kit that we started with and we started with that song and so, we ended up using that and then also, this Acrolyte snare drum was used on several songs, but (...) this is also the snare that was used on "Use Somebody".
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Rival Consoles

> So far I have a beautiful dark ride cymbal and a ludwig snare which I played on Persona with brushes and many small percussion items such as shakers but I really want to get deeper into the power of live percussion recording. Can be seen in the above picture, probably this one, not sure though. http://www.stampthewax.com/2018/05/24/talking-tech-rival-consoles/
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Stella Mozgawa

“On a lot of the tracks on the album,” she explains, “we made the snare and kick sounds a little grittier and more electronic, so I’ll just fatten up the snare on certain songs live, like ‘New Song’ from Heads Up and ‘Disco/Very’ from the last record, just put a LinnDrum snare on it. I use an Acrolite snare, which is exactly the snare I want to use forever until the end of time, but they never really made a deep model. So I guess I’m compensating a little for that, but also the familiarity of that tone. Also, even though there’s four of us on stage, we’re sort of a three-piece, and we’ve got to kind of fill in sonically—a little more decay on certain things.”
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Michael Cavanagh

Cavs uses the Ludwig Acrolite for live shows and in studio. In the King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard the making of their LP "Flying Microtonal Banana" (Peeling The Flying Microtonal Banana) Cavanagh is seen showing of his drum set. The Acrolite is visible at 2:39.
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Josh Eppard

Is there a piece of drum kit that you couldn’t live without? “It’s that Ludwig Acrolite snare that I mentioned earlier. It’s a 1969 drum, it’s my dad’s drum. I only use it in the studio. That drum is just magic. It has crack with a little bit of body.”
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Stan Lynch

Mentioned by Lynch in this May 2008 *Modern Drummer Magazine* interview. > "This is one of my vintage Tama kits, circa the late 1970s," Stan Lynch says. "It was used on almost every Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers session I did, as well as on recordings by Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne, Don Henley, John Mellencamp, Aretha Franklin, The Eurythmics, Brian Wilson, Roger McGuinn, Stevie Nicks, Del Shannon, T-Bone Burnett, The Byrds, Belinda Carlisle, Freedy Johnston, and many others. > > "It features a 14x24 kick, 8x12 and 9x13 rack toms, and a 16x16 floor tom. As for the snare drums, at that time I used a 6½x14 Ludwig Black Beauty, 5x14 and 6½x14 Ludwig Supraphonics, and a 5x14 Ludwig Acrolite. Not shown, but included with this kit, were 6x6, 8x8, and 10x14 tom-toms. > > "Besides the drums, I have always used Zildjian cymbals, Pro-Mark drumsticks, Remo heads, and DW pedals."
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Ludwig Acrolite 5x14 Snare Drum

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